At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.
PAUL MCCARTNEYThe willow turns his back on inclement weather. And if he can do it, we can do it.
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You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.
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Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don’t always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.
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Painting is similar to music. You get a couple or words or notes or chords that excite you, and you just follow them and add a bit more and see where it takes you. That’s the thrill for me. It still is a thrill, which is amazing after all this time.
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In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
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Hamburg totally wrecked us. I remember getting home to England and my dad thought I was half-dead. I looked like a skeleton, I hadn’t noticed the change, I’d been having such a ball!
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Putting two songs together, I’ve always loved that trick when it works.
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I don’t work at being ordinary.
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You can judge a man’s true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.
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If You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band.
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We can work it out. Life is very short, and there’s no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.
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I still believe that love is all you need. I don’t know a better message than that.
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I can’t manage without homeopathy. In fact, I never go anywhere without homeopathic remedies. I often make use of them.
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I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.
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A lot of artists use memories. A lot of prose writers, a lot of poets, a lot of songwriters, refer back to something. Generally it’s all you’ve got, unless you’re brilliant and can write totally in the now.
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It’s not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that’s your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there’s a pretty good chance you’d call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.
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